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An Army at Dawn
An Army at Dawn

Rick Atkinson

2002

NON-FICTION

Pulitzer Prize-winning first volume of Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy covering the North Africa campaign.

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, North Africa, North Africa Theater, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 18
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944

Rick Atkinson

2007

NON-FICTION

Second volume of Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy, covering the brutal Allied campaign through Sicily and up the Italian peninsula.

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, North Africa, North Africa Theater, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 18
States and Power in Africa
States and Power in Africa

Jeffrey Herbst

2014

NON-FICTION

Originally published: A2000. With new preface and revised chapter nine by the author.

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, North Africa, North Africa Theater, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Together We Stand: North Africa 1942–1943: Turning the Tide in the West
Together We Stand: North Africa 1942–1943: Turning the Tide in the West

James Holland

2015

NON-FICTION

From the bestselling author of Fortress Malta this is the second book in the Mediterranean war trilogy. This book looks afresh at the conflict in Northern Africa, focusing for the first time on the in...

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, North Africa, North Africa Theater, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 14
The Rommel Papers

Erwin Rommel (ed. B.H. Liddell Hart)

1953

MEMOIR

Rommel's own diaries and notes from the North Africa campaign, edited by military historian Liddell Hart after Rommel's death.

Tags: Armored, North Africa, North Africa Theater, WWII
MATCH 12
Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the Gates

William Craig

1973

NON-FICTION

The definitive account of the Battle of Stalingrad, told through the eyes of soldiers on both sides.

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege

Antony Beevor

1998

NON-FICTION

Beevor's masterful account of the battle that changed the course of WWII on the Eastern Front.

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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A Time for Trumpets

Charles B. MacDonald

1985

NON-FICTION

Comprehensive history of the Battle of the Bulge by a historian who fought in it.

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 12
Kursk 1943
Kursk 1943

Dennis Showalter

2013

NON-FICTION

Authoritative account of the greatest tank battle in history.

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers

Stephen E. Ambrose

1992

NON-FICTION

The story of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, from D-Day to the end of the war in Europe. Basis for the HBO miniseries.

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 12
Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War

Chris Bellamy

2007

NON-FICTION

Comprehensive history of the Soviet-German war drawing on newly opened Russian archives. Covers the full sweep from Barbarossa to Berlin.

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941–45

Alan Clark

1965

NON-FICTION

Gripping operational narrative of the Eastern Front campaign from the 1941 invasion to Germany's defeat. A foundational text of Eastern Front history.

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 12
The Road to Stalingrad
The Road to Stalingrad

John Erickson

1975

NON-FICTION

First volume of Erickson's monumental two-volume history of the Soviet-German war, covering the catastrophic opening campaigns through the winter of 1942.

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 12
Citizen Soldiers
Citizen Soldiers

Stephen E. Ambrose

1997

NON-FICTION

The story of the American infantryman in the ETO from the breakout after D-Day to the fall of Germany, based on hundreds of veteran interviews.

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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The Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk

David M. Glantz & Jonathan House

1999

NON-FICTION

The definitive operational history of Kursk — the largest tank battle ever fought — drawing on Soviet and German archives to provide a day-by-day account of the fighting.

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed

Michael Jones

2007

NON-FICTION

Account of Stalingrad focusing on the Soviet soldiers and civilians who endured the fighting, drawing on diaries and letters from Russian archives.

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa

David M Glantz

2011

NON-FICTION

On 22 June 1941 Hitler unleashed his forces on the Soviet Union. Spearheaded by four powerful Panzer groups and protected by an impenetrable curtain of air support, the seemingly invincible Wehrmacht ...

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Armageddon in Stalingrad
Armageddon in Stalingrad

David M. Glantz, Jonathan Mallory House

2009

NON-FICTION

The world's foremost authority on the Soviet Army in World War II offers the second installment of his pathbreakinbg trilogy on the epic clash at Stalingrad. The definitive account of the battle that ...

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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After Stalingrad
After Stalingrad

David M. Glantz

2009

NON-FICTION

In the wake of the Red Army's signal victory at Stalingrad, which began when its surprise counteroffensive encircled German Sixth Army in Stalingrad region in mid-November 1942 and ended when its forc...

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Barbarossa Derailed
Barbarossa Derailed

David Glantz

2014

NON-FICTION

The supplemental companion to a two-part study on Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's plan to invade Soviet Russia during World War II. Volume three, the Documentary Companion to Barbarossa Derailed, conta...

Tags: Armored, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction